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Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School: More Than 50 Mindboggling Maths Puzzles! |  | Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1602507
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0747569126
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.74
EAN: 9780747569121
ASIN: 0747569126
Publication Date: May 3, 2004
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Product Description
Why does elf + elf = fool? How many meals will Miss Mush, the lunch teacher, have to cook for the food to taste as bad as it smells? These Sideways Arithmetic problems may look puzzling at first, but you can use real maths to solve them, and the answers are perfectly logical. There are lots of clues and hints; plus, all the answers are in the back of the book. Best of all, all the kids you read about in Sideways Stories from Wayside School are here to help you! Try solving these, and more than fifty other maths brainteasers, along with the kids from Mrs. Jewls' class. You'll learn alot about maths but you'll be laughing too much to notice!
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 Awesome book! December 21, 2009
Beverly (Fairfax, VA USA)
My fourth-grade daughter loved this book. She went through the problems very quickly. Some of them were pretty tricky and confusing in the beginning, but she had fun as she began to learn how to tackle them. We strongly recomend this book to all people who enjoy math, math puzzles and sudoku.
Want you child to read...get these series October 30, 2009
Josie (Jefferson, GA USA)
My granddaughter loves all of these author's books. She started reading them at school and ask me to purchase some for her own collection. She is 9 and now has 4 of his books. Get your child reading with this author's work.
An excellent supplementary book for elementary school mathematics October 24, 2008
Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com))
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first 24 problems in this book are alphametics, which solidified my belief that alphametics are one of the best types of problems for teaching children the rules of algebra. The problems are fairly simple, some examples are
mom
+ pop
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yoyo
top
+tot
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opt
There are also five more difficult alphametics where the operation is multiplication.
The remaining problems are lengthy word problems that involve logic, while requiring some thought; all are within the grasp of the late elementary school student. Solutions to all 55 problems are included at the end. This is an excellent supplementary book for elementary school mathematics.
Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission
It's great January 24, 2008
Puzzle Guru
Although this book looks like a kid's book, it is really for teenagers and older. It is full of math puzzles, so if you have a bent for figuring out puzzles, don't let the cover and title put you off. It's not really arithmetic -- it's more logic puzzles. I loved this book, and so did my high school aged kids.
 THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU A HEADACHE! January 13, 2008
Leo
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is not a story book. It is a math book. It is too difficult for a young reader. Most adults or older teenagers would probably enjoy it but only if they love math. My 9 year old child said it gave her a headache. My child was given this book at school to read and expected to do the problems in it. Some of the problems required math skills she has not even been introduced too. It is simply too hard for young readers.
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